Re: Smartmedia/xd card support - request for comments

From: Ben Dooks
Date: Thu Apr 17 2008 - 05:11:12 EST


On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 01:50:33AM -0700, Alex Dubov wrote:
> I've implemented, with generous help from JMicron, a native support for Smartmedia/xD picture card
> media. Currently, only JMicron backend is available, but TI expressed some interest in this too,
> so TI Flashmedia backend may soon follow.
>
> Smartmedia cards are quite akin to the dumb flash chips, but they have their quirks that put them
> aside as a separate media type.

They're NAND chips, just with a standard ECC/block replacement
stratergy... why isn't this under drivers/mtd ?

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